Monthly Archives: April 2015

Rebellion is a 2011 French historical drama set in New Caledonia. The film recreates the Ouvéa cave hostage taking in 1988 when 30 policemen are taken hostage by local separatists. The film follows Captain Philippe Legorjus who is sent out to negotiate with rebel leader Alphonse Dianou.

In the past week a rebellion swept through the US city of Baltimore, following the police murder of 25 year old Black man, Freddie Gray. In response the city has declared a week long curfew and called in the national guard.

We hope to have a discussion on growing anti police brutality movement in the US and the recent wave of riots and disorder.

We will discuss what strategic lessons we can learn for our own organising against deaths in custody, as well as discussing the potential for these moments of rebellion to generalise into a larger movement against capitalism.

We’re used to seeing the riot footage in Greece, but what about the constructive element of the anti-authoritarian movement?

“Let’s not live like slaves, is a compendium of testimonies of resistance in terms of self-organization, solidarity and autonomy. This is not exactly a documentary but different images, personal and collective stories about the situation in Greece. A French-Greek film which gives an insight on the resistance, mainly led by antiauthoritarian sphere, in the Hellenic Country showing the collaboration of different collectives, the running of self-organized centres and hospitals, the spreading of alternative journalism, the day by day in the alternative neighbourhood of Exarchia, and other activities.

It is a call against the slavery imposed by the State and Capital and a compilation of examples that show new ways of self-organized and independent living.”

An evening of film and discussion about contemporary forms of struggle in the Philippines, and to ask what forms of solidarity might be possible.

Numerous anarchist spaces have emerged in the Philippines in recent years, and the collectives behind these spaces have played a significant role in social struggles aiming to address the everyday living conditions of Filipinos. These struggles have often focussed upon access to food, energy, housing, and against state corruption. Comrades in the Philippines are creating novel forms of political activity to confront the effects of climate change, hyper-exploitation and state corruption. We will play some short films made by comrades in the Philippines about struggles they have been involved in recent years, and based on interviews with comrades we will offer some brief comments, and discussion.

Following the short films and discussion we will screen the documentary ‘Halfway around the world’.
Halfway around the world is a film about Philippine women who have worked in Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Taiwan, Brunei or Namibia, mainly as textile workers.

On Thurs April 16 we held a reading group discussing the recent text: No Eviction in The Mission.

When wannabe Miley Cyrus and Mackelmore move into your neighbourhood : a zine for white, class, privileged, anarchists/queers/activists/punks/progressives/art hipsters who are part of gentrification in Oakland, San Francisco, Melbourne and beyond…

Rebellion in Patagonia is an Argentinian historical drama from 1974. It is based upon the real story of the military suppression of the anarchist labour movement in Santa Cruz Province in the early 1920s.

Despite the mythology, the First World War was not a popular war. There was mass opposition to it from the beginning. In Australia and around the world.
Nor has ANZAC Day always been a popular holiday. There is a long history of opposition to militarism on ANZAC Day by anti-war and feminist protesters.

“After the police had dispersed, Women Against Rape in War march up Anzac Parade towards the Australian War Memorial to lay their wreath at the Stone of Remembrance.” Glen McDonald (1981), Canberra Times Collection.

These two quite different documentaries portray militant struggles against fascism and fanaticism in two different parts of the world – Sweden and Syria.

Nästa Station Rönninge (30 min) portrays a decade of resistance to the largest neo-nazi march in Scandinavia taking place every year from 2000 to 2011. In Swedish/Danish with English subs.

PKK fighters in the Sinjar (50 min) is a documentary about the Kurdish PKK troops fighting the ISIS forces which had surrounded Mount Sinjar in late 2014. Before the siege, now know as the Sinjar Massacre, was broken, ISIS had managed to kill 5,000 Yazidi civilians. In Kurdish and English with English subtitles.

We will facilitate a discussion on lessons learned from the nationwide Reclaim Australia rallies and Count-rallies on sat April 4th.

This is the first attempt by far-right nationalist to put on a large-scale event in some years. We invite people to come share their thought on strategies for anti-racist organising in light of how it all went down.

Then at 7pm on Thurs April 9 we’ll be hosting a reading group disscussion on the text:Fascism / Anti-fascism by Jean Barrot (Gilles Duave).

The text is highly critical of anti-fascism as a strategy and ideology. We hope to discuss whether anti-fascism is actually necessary? Is it even useful? What should the response of revolutionaries to fascism be?

Upcoming Events

Film NightFebruary 19, 2018 at 8:00 am – 11:00 amBlack RoseA weekly cosy screening of a film or documentary at Black Rose. This week's is '5 Broken Cameras', a documentary on a Palestinian farmer's chronicle of his nonviolent resistance to the actions of the Israeli army. The screening will be followed by a discussion.

Radical Discussions!February 20, 2018 at 8:00 am – 11:00 amA friendly weekly discussion on all things radical. Most talks include a 10-20 minute presentation followed by a group discussion. (Facilitated with speaking list) If you want to host a discussion, contact the space :)